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(252 Je effusus Le Bog Rushe Rootstocks stout, matted, the stems densely 
tufted, soft and pliant, stout, 60-120 cm, tall or more; leaves all basal, 
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scale-like and sheathing, 5-10 m, longg the -bledes—chortgMOTCuler- BD peMgr= 
aees or wantiper inflorescence a dense cluster appearing as lateral to the 
stem; flowers numerous, 100-150 or more, the branches 1-3 cm, long, slender, 
the bracts scarious, each flower bracteate; pedicels 1-3 mm, long; pcrianth 
segments subequal, 5-5.5 mm, long, lanceolate, acute, green, drying strawe> =| 
color with two brown lines, the inner 3-veined; stamens about half the 
length of the perianth segments, 3, opposite the outer segments, the 
anthers shorter than the filaments; capsule about 3 mm, long, obovate, 
retuse, 3-chambered, polished; seeds scarcely .5 mm, long, apiculate at 
both ends, curved, 
Boggy open stream bottom near Kellogg, Epling and Houck 10098, 
Ga Bee L. Rootstocks creeping, 3¢jmn. in diameter, clothed 
rith lanceolate scales 4.5 mm. long; apparent stems erect, pliant, 20- 
30 em. tall; leaves all scale-like and sheathing, 2-5 cm, longs the 
-c mm. long ame; inflorescence 
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8-9 flowered, appearing as a cluster shortly below the middle of the 
apparent stem, the outer bract much elongated, being the anparent con- 
tinuation of the stem, 10-15 cm, long, terete, sheathing onlv at the 
